AnandTech continues to investigate Intel Pentium M performance in desktop appliactions. This time Intel Pentium M 770 was installed onto the mainboard via ASUS?Pentium M => Pentium 4 socket adapter and once again compared against typical high-end desktop solutions form Intel and AMD in a set of tests. The benchmarks?results showed an interesting picture concerning mobile processor's performance gains thanks to ASUS?product as well as powerful platform for Intel Pentium 4 chips.

?With the CT-479, ASUS has effectively demolished all other desktop Pentium M solutions. There's no reason to even consider a 855GME motherboard from AOpen or DFI; the ASUS solution is cheaper, better performing and is even a much more stable overclocker. It's the only option that we?d recommend for those interested in a desktop Pentium M system. Despite being paired with enough memory bandwidth, the Pentium M continues to fall behind in desktop performance. As a gaming platform and as a general purpose/office machine, the Pentium M does fairly well, but it is in content creation, workstation and media encoding applications that the Pentium M continues to fall behind. The Pentium M wasn't a competitive CPU when it came to tasks like media encoding, indicating that if the Pentium M is to succeed on the desktop, it's going to need some architectural improvements,?concludes AnandTech.

• AnandTech: Intel's Pentium M Desktop Part II: ASUS?Pentium M to Pentium 4 Socket Adapter.